LONDON, Sept. 29 (UPI) — Four British citizens allegedly fighting or recruiting for the Islamic State are on a United Nations sanctions list on Britain’s recommendation.
Oman Hussein, 28, Sally-Anne Jones, 46, Nasser Muthana, 21, and Aqsa Mahmood, 21, each an alleged high-profile activist with ties to Syria, were put on the UN’s updated “1267/1989 Committee Sanctions List”. The list identifies several hundred people and groups who face a travel ban and freeze of assets.
The name of the list comes from U.N. resolutions which imposed sanctions against the Taliban and al-Qaida, and has been extended to include IS, also identified as Daesh, ISIS or ISIL.
While the addition of new British names could be seen as symbolic — it is unlikely the jihadists will engage in personal banking activity while in IS-controlled territory — evidence submitted shows the four were “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities” which could be regarded as terrorist, including the uploading of bomb-making instructions to social media. All four have been identified in British media, prior to the sanctions, for alleged IS activities.
The parents of Mahmood referred to their daughter’s inclusion on the list as “useless grandstanding” on the part of British Prime Minister David Cameron. Their lawyer, Aamer Anwar, said the parents suggested other parents of alleged jihadists will be less likely to come forward and inform authorities of concerns regarding their children.
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